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MCafé, Chaya Restaurant’s entry into the niche macrobiotic food sector has been long in the planning and now has three locations to show for it, the first being the M CaféMelrose Avenue, West Hollywood location that opened in 2005, following that the M Caféin Culver City, and earlier this year (2010) M Café, Beverly Hills. There will be more to come.

M Café introduces au courant Macrobiotic Cuisine to the West side of Los Angeles. They feature balanced, nutritious, creative cooking, which can be enjoyed at any time by everyone, not just vegetarians or people with dietary restrictions. M Café brings this newly updated cuisine with an inviting European café-style setting, offering breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Under the direction of Chaya’s Corporate Executive Chef, Shigefumi Tachibe along with consulting macrobiotic chef, Lee Gross.

Chef Shigefumi Tachibe began training in formal French technique at the age of fifteen at the Hotel Ban Show Row in Nagasaki, Japan. He then served as an exchange chef at the restaurant Gannino in Milan, Italy, at the age of 21. Upon returning to Japan, he was named Executive Chef at La Marée de Chaya in Hayama, Japan. His experience with French and Italian cooking coupled with Japanese cuisine became the fusion that is now synonymous with Chaya Restaurants. He first came to Los Angeles in 1981 with Yuta Tsunoda, the founder of Chaya Restaurants, to open La Petite Chaya.